I fried something, don't know what though. :(

[scorp00]

I was overclocking last night. Got up to 150/38 stable, then went for 166/33 and it wouldn't boot. So while it's off i jumper the 2 pins to reset the bios settings. When I boot it back up, my HD spins up like normal, then clicks, then spins down and clicks, then spins up and clicks. This happens forever and doesn't stop. It does this to both my 120 gig which was connected and my 45 gig which wasn't at the time of overclocking. I have the fail safe settings on my bios now on and the computer will boot up and recognize my cd drive but it will only recognize my 45 gig hd. It won't boot off of the 45 gig, just recognize it in bios. It recognizes and reports the right values for the cpu and ram too.

ECS K7VTA3 (KT333)
Athlon 1600+
both WD hard drives

So do you guys think that this is a MB problem or a power supply problem? No voltages were upped in the overclocking attempt, just the fsb.

 

[JustStarting]

just a check- did you place the jumper pins back to default?? can you boot to floppy?? go online and get powermax program- I use it always to check a hdd before i sell it or when i buy a used one. it's a great program.




found a linky. says it only works with maxtor/quantum hdd's, but i've used it with others.

 

[scorp00]

Yeah, the jumpers are all set back to default. I didn't try booting from a floppy because I don't have a bootable one handy.

 

[JustStarting]

try the disk checker from maxtor- and post your results. there is one for wd also, but don't have the link for it.

 

[scorp00]

ok, i'll give that a shot tonight once I get home

 

[lsman]

do you unplug the power cord when doing the clear BIOS? i think the newer standard ask for it (should be the ATX power standard).
Try it again, and keep the jumper for a while before put back into the normal position.

 

[scorp00]

No problem clearing bios, as it wouldn't boot before I cleared it and now it'll boot just fine.

The problem is with the hard drives spinning up and down and clicking.

 

[lsman]

you mean both of your 120G hds, and the the 45G do not work with in now?
and you can load the fail safe setting of bios (should you load the optimise setting, whatever) after you clear the BIOS?
I will say clear it again doesn't hurt. (remember the Power cord thing, it happen to the ECS K7s5a and the time need to clear it.) you can even take the battery out for safe.

So it come down to either the HD fail or the controller part of the MB fail. (i guess)

 

[JustStarting]

1). S/D computer
2). Remove power supply cord
3). Remove the CMOS battery
4). Jumper CMOS
5). Go grab a beer
6). Install cmos battery and place jumper back to default.
7). Reboot

This will surely restore defaults. Are you getting a checksum error after booting without entering the bios?? You should after resetting the bios defaults. You will have to enter bios and select CPU speed. If this is not happening your bios is probably pooched. Flash it to a newer version.

 

[scorp00]

It would not boot at all after I tried to set it to 166 mhz. I unplugged it and jumpered it for 10 seconds. It booted and gave me the checksum error like it should.

The computer then boots up and I can select fail safe in the bios. It will recognize my cd drives in bios, but it won't recognize the hard drives. Plus the hard drives make this weird clicking noise along with the spinning up and spinning down.

So you guys think it's the MB?

I also tried powermax, and it wouldn't boot from the floppy.

 

[compudog]

Sounds like something is toasted to me.

 

[Vape]

scorp00, you may have done something wierd to the PS. unplug the cd drives and check again, or swap power cables, sound like the power is sent to drives, then not enough and powered off, then again... blah blah.

see how ya go.

bitch of a problem though...

 

[scorp00]

I think the PS is the problem. It's only connected to the MB and 1 HD and I get the weird power up and power down sequence without an IDE cable even attached. Weird.

A power supply is one of the few things I have an extra one of, so i'm hoping it's that.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: scorp00
I think the PS is the problem. It's only connected to the MB and 1 HD and I get the weird power up and power down sequence without an IDE cable even attached. Weird.

A power supply is one of the few things I have an extra one of, so i'm hoping it's that.

It's possible that you did toast the PSU when you overclocked the bus. I ran CPUBurn on a T-bird 1GHz@1.4Ghz system once, and the whole thing shut down several seconds into the test. I smelled something from the power supply - inside it, I found that several resistors had burnt themselves a bit, turning the surrounding circuitboard brown. It was a cheap PSU that came with a cheap case. Go figure.

 

[JustStarting]

could you plug one of the hdd's into another system and see what it does?? probably not the hdd's, but it would save you from buying a PSU or mobo if the hdd's were bad.

 

[scorp00]

Yeah, it's a cheap 300 watt psu that came with my cheap case. I have an extra working system at home. Home is just 2 hours away.

I'll swap stuff out and see if I can't get it working before I leave to see relatives.

I just found it weird to kill a part without physically killing it. I've never had a part die on me besides one's I physically screwed up. I guess my luck ran out.

Thanks for your help guys.